For his part, IDS conceived welfare reform as a moral mission, not simply a way to save money and disadvantage opponents.
FEW political reforms conceived in logic, civic virtue and a desire for more perfect democracy can have turned out more preposterous than the institution or the Presidential primary as confronts the country in 1972.
Recent reports suggest that the reforms conceived in 1995 were neither comprehensive enough nor well implemented [ 6].
By pretending that Social Security is some kind of program whose solvency can be judged separately, Lowenstein willingly succumbs to the standard accounting fictions to score points against the Bush administration's own ill-conceived reforms.
The presidential initiative also played a role in the 1906 founding of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is today condemned as a guardian of the status quo but was originally conceived as a reform organization.
He has steered through a tax reform (conceived by the previous government) that has flattened rates and simplified some of the most frustrating rules (such as the requirement that all records be kept on paper).
Feasibly, that could involve the tax rate on the top earners rising now to 39.6% as the president insists, but being lowered again towards the end of 2013 by which time extensive tax reforms, properly conceived, could be introduced.
We believe that a "schools only" approach to achieving equity is a proven failure — and that school reform, narrowly conceived, is destined to continue falling short.
This paper analyses a tax reform, explicitly conceived by policy makers to be climate-friendly, that partly replaces a high vehicle registration tax by road user charging and allows for differentiation of the remaining registration tax by fuel efficiency.
Originally opened in February of this year, the long-awaited talks were going to jumpstart a reform program conceived of by the Sunni royal family in response to the civil unrest.
The education faculties of most of Turkey's leading universities — including Sabanci University, Bosphorus University, Middle East Technical University and Koc University — have all issued press statements recently describing the reforms as hastily conceived, retrograde and out of step with current thinking.
